Snowden Adds Impressive Caymans To Sheik's Spring String

PETER SNOWDEN'S success with Dubai's ruler and now Australia's most prominent thoroughbred owner, Sheik Mohammed, continued yesterday when lightly raced two-year-old Caymans emerged as a spring carnival contender.

Verbeek Urges Team To Be Alert

IT WILL be hot, intense, and nerve-racking, but Australia knows that a win - perhaps even a point - against Iraq in the early hours of tomorrow in Dubai will ensure it books itself a place in the final phase of Asian World Cup qualifying.

Toss Of The Coyne

Chris Coyne may get his chance against Iraq, Michael Lynch reports from Dubai.

Not Opium But Medicine, Says Spokesman For Asif

DETAINED Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif claimed yesterday that suspect drugs found on him at Dubai Airport were given to him by a doctor, and was not opium as initially reported.

Fired Up About Dubai

Faculty of Science Dean Professor Rob Whelan will be swapping bushfires for sun-baked desert sands when he takes up his new post as President of the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) later this year.